<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68,84,106);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"One example: many organisations are still struggling with the surprises they get when migrating file formats, why can’t we have tools that understands the peculiarities of the file formats and can deal with that.</span> "<div><br></div><div>To add a little detail to this example, here are a few specific issues related to file format migrations:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Many formats are proprietary so we are not allowed to see the inner workings of files created in such a format.</div><div><br></div><div>"Open" standards for file formats often allow "extensions" that can lead to surprises when you migrate files written to the standard (e.g., TIFF 6 files with local extensions).</div><div><br></div><div>Many formats are actually containers that can include bit streams in multiple formats (e.g., Word files, PDF and PDF/A files).</div><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Some "formats" (e.g., ESRI shape files) actually require data to be stored in multiple files in different formats to create a single "file."</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><br></div><div>Existing tools can only accurately<b> identify </b>(i.e., by something other than file name extension) a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of formats currently in use.</div><div><br></div><div>Existing tools can only <b>validate</b> (i.e., determine if a file is well-formed according to the specification allegedly used to create the file) an even smaller percentage of the formats currently in use.</div><div><br></div></blockquote>This is not an exhaustive list.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Conrad<br>NARA Information Services</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Barbara Sierman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Barbara.Sierman@kb.nl" target="_blank">Barbara.Sierman@kb.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#44546a">On my list would be: practices that have proven to lead to a result that is really robust enough to be called a long
term solution. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#44546a">One example: many organisations are still struggling with the surprises they get when migrating file formats, why can’t
we have tools that understands the peculiarities of the file formats and can deal with that.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,<br>
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Barbara Sierman<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Van:</b> MOIMS-DAI <<a href="mailto:moims-dai-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org" target="_blank">moims-dai-bounces@mailman.<wbr>ccsds.org</a>> <b>
Namens </b>Mike Kearney<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 10 juli 2018 22:36<br>
<b>Aan:</b> 'MOIMS-Data Archive Interoperability' <<a href="mailto:moims-dai@mailman.ccsds.org" target="_blank">moims-dai@mailman.ccsds.org</a>><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> [Moims-dai] Desirable preservation ecosystem characteristics<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Vint Cerf is a preservation evangelist, and in discussions and presentations he makes, he’s considering adding this topic: Desirable preservation ecosystem characteristics. The idea is that if we know what we want the
preservation environment to be 50 or 100 years from now, we will have be better equipped to chart a course (at least the first steps) to get there. Vint asked me my opinion on that, and I’m asking the DAI WG community.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m doing this off the top of my head right now, so here goes my first cut at it:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Trustworthiness of archives: <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">A majority of archives that are certified trustworthy.
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Broad community agreement on what constitutes trustworthiness and the process for certifying it.
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Global prioritization of the need for certification of key archives.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Interoperability of archives: <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Well understood and widely available user interface systems that function broadly for multi-archive access.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Archive-to-Archive communications that are easily and quickly configured.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_1228437870624921113MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt">
<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Distributed archives that allow transparent access to all preserved data within their distributed “realm.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Access to archives (besides above): <u></u>
<u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_1228437870624921113MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt">
<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">(From the RDA) Data sharing without boundaries. Social and technical infrastructure that enables open sharing of data.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_1228437870624921113MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt">
<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Well-understood and easily-waiverable system of Intellectual Property management – for example, a system to quickly secure rights to download YouTube videos by national archivists.
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Effective archive security that does not interfere with authorized user access.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Future tech: <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_1228437870624921113MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt">
<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Storage capacity: A better, faster, cheaper More’s Law.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_1228437870624921113MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt">
<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">AI Access to preservation archives; AI helpers that can assist archive users whether they are part of the Designated Community or not.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Auto-preservation… Systems that automatically compile the *<b>correct</b>* metadata (Representation Info) as object data is generated.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">AI systems that can generate warnings like “Uh oh… you’re not compiling the correct metadata!”
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What’s on your list? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> -=- Mike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mike Kearney<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Huntsville, Alabama, USA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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